Foto: © Anke Illing
Samstag, 4. Februar 2006
Pitfalls
urmila, 20:26h
It is not that easy to be politically correct, to get rid of racist classifications, to avoid othering.
In today's newspaper I found an article about an 'Austrian', who does not look like one, and thus faces the normal range of everyday racisms: considered to be a 'foreigner', considered to lack certain competences, constantly othered, etc.
Unfortunately the author reproduces the othering. He describes the 'Austrian' to be patient, smiling, industrious and small. What could a 'Cambodian', as the author calls him, be else?
In today's newspaper I found an article about an 'Austrian', who does not look like one, and thus faces the normal range of everyday racisms: considered to be a 'foreigner', considered to lack certain competences, constantly othered, etc.
Unfortunately the author reproduces the othering. He describes the 'Austrian' to be patient, smiling, industrious and small. What could a 'Cambodian', as the author calls him, be else?
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